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Sorry to Bother You

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In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe. From TMDB

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  • Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    SORRY TO BOTHER YOU starts as a movie about a black guy who gets ahead in telemarketing because he can do a white voice, and by the end it's about a revolution led by human-horse hybrids called Equisapiens. Now Boots Riley has made a second movie.

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  • Dex Anderson @dexanderson.comBluesky · Jun 18, 2024

    gonna go rewatch Sorry to Bother You because even that movie wasn't this fucking dystopic

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  • bootsriley.bsky.social @bootsriley.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    For context, Sorry To Bother You premiered with on 800 screens and made $4M that 1st weekend. The amount that could be added to a Black-led film by tracking Carribean numbers might change the game for many films. A wide release could be 2250 screens, this would b 1/3 of that.

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  • Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    Boots Riley, the visionary filmmaker behind Sorry to Bother You and creator of I’m a Virgo, returns with his latest project, I Love Boosters.

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  • Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2026

    I'm watching Sorry to Bother You and I forgot how surreal this movie is and also Armie Hammer's screen presence is always so unsettling, even before whatever happened with the whole cannibal thing. It's a very 2018 movie in a lot of ways, and I feel like a mule kicked me in the head as I typed that

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  • Dex Anderson @dexanderson.comBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    tonight's movie with friends: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

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  • Joe Lasko 🔞 @joelasko.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    This is why the movie "Sorry to Bother You" gets so bonkers. Because subtly and is dead, artists sometimes need to hit alot of people over the head with their message

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  • Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.comBluesky · Dec 18, 2023

    New Space the Nation episode is up today for all: @dandrezner.bsky.social and I unpack all the subtleties (this is sarcasm!) of Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You, a movie that was recommended to me so much I refused to watch it for years. My loss! It is quite good! shows.acast.com/spacethenati...

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  • Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Finally watched Sorry To Bother You. Enjoyed it quite a lot. But when my buddy warned me that it starts off as a quirky comedy and escalates into something else, I still wasn't prepared. There's a moment in that film where the acid kicks in and things go amazingly gonzo.

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  • Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.comBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    Chose to watch 'The American Society of Magical Negroes' based purely on the strength of the title, & it is excellent. Smart. Satirical. Funny. Incisive. If you liked the film Sorry To Bother You or the book Careless People, give it a go. www.imdb.com/title/tt3000...

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  • Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2026

    Sorry To Bother You will someday be regarded as Brazil is now, and it will totally deserve it. Wild, brilliant dystopian movie.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    Boots Riley (with scenes from his film "Sorry to Bother You") - BOTD

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  • CJ @notapodcaster.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2025

    Boots Riley, not even a contest, e.g., Sorry to Bother You only works as a film because of its aggressively left-wing stance.

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  • Aurora of the Vast Oceans @kylenne.etheirys.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    I need yall to know right after we took this selfie I told him I loved Sorry to Bother You bc I worked in a call center Me: that movie was my whole life, except for the horse dicks Boots: …metaphorically 💀💀💀

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  • Adorable Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @gaythanksbye.northsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    I've decided to watch another Boots Riley movie because I loved I Love Boosters so much so I'm watching Sorry To Bother You and your lil Teamster steward is picking up very early that this man has a running theme and I really really like it. I will support all of his endeavors

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  • Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2025

    My ★★★★ review of Sorry to Bother You on Letterboxd boxd.it/8SihIb

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  • Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2025

    There is this movie called "Sorry To Bother You", by Boots Riley, in which a Company called Worry Free sells the brilliant opportunity of being enslaved and don't have to worry about unemployment anymore. This is an outtake of a WorryFree TV ad:

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  • Deramin @deramin.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    I watched Sorry To Bother You (2018) yesterday, and it feels like every time I open social media I’m hit with a real world analogue to each horror element. Like a new mass-market deeply racist Halloween costume. Which shows just how skillful a social commentary horror film it is, but also 😬.

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  • Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    Teaching at a college in which students work shit jobs & who have parents who work shit jobs has its downsides (students are time stressed/$ stressed) but also its rewards. Students read Sorry to Bother You literally: “work turns you into an animal; it dehumanizes you. This film is totally real.”

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  • DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2024

    I'm watching "Sorry To Bother You" for the first time and it's pretty fun but it got FAR weirder than I was expecting. What a wild movie.

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  • Sartha kayce @t4tcisphobe.hellstar.plusBluesky · Sep 25, 2026

    now watching I Love Boosters!!! i adored Sorry to Bother You so im real excited for another Boots Riley movie

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  • Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2026

    30. I Love Boosters Best movie of the year I'm being so deadass. Watch this movie knowing as little about it as possible, but I do recommend watching "Sorry to Bother You" first to gauge if you're into this sort of freak cinema

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  • de’on @justkeepskeeting.proBluesky · Jan 15, 2025

    DAY 14 - A film you've watched on a first date #30DayFilmChallenge i don’t know that i would recommend Sorry to Bother You (2018) as a first movie you watch with someone

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  • 👻ZH00000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    This constant erasure of what was going on in that film to focus on Teyana Taylor's annoying politics will never not enrage me, like I remember when SORRY TO BOTHER YOU came out and it was fucking crickets for that masterpiece

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  • Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    Annapurna could sign a Black director to make a cool, breakout cultural film, like Sorry to Bother You. (Treachery in Beatdown City, my game, has been compared to it 😏) Amazon could also sign a Black director to make another cultural breakout film, like One Night in Miami. And yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    Name a film with a title that is a full sentence. Sorry to Bother You

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  • Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.orgBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    Join Greater Baltimore DSA on Sat, October 11th, at Old Major for a free screening of Boots Riley's scathing labor treatise Sorry to Bother You (2018). This screening also marks the official launch of GBDSA's Maryland Right to Strike campaign! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/sorry-to-bother-you

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    Day 18 - #BlackhistoryMonth #NowWatching Sorry to Bother You on @kanopy.com . I haven’t got a chance to watch this movie yet but now I’m watching it right now. #Filmsky #Moviesky 🎥

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  • Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    New on the site! @aetataureate.bsky.social reflects on Final Profit and Sorry to Bother You. Whether you're working in RPG Maker or making a feature film, it's time for more stories about capitalism and defiance, told as parody or with absurdity.

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  • Boater Witch Poppy @boaterwitch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Finally watched Sorry To Bother You and good gods that movie fucking rules

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  • PleasantKenobi @pleasantkenobi.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2025

    Oh shit, double rec on Sorry To Bother You. What a great movie.

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  • Capital is a vampire...sent to drain labor @discchoco.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    The thesis is "our ruling class are scientifically illiterate and gonna get us all killed and there's nothing we can do", it's like a lobotomized Sorry to Bother You. This film is begging for a call to action but all the liberal filmmakers know is Vote Harder, Phone Bank, Eat Hot Chip, and Lie

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  • robdog 👾 @robdogdraws.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    I Love Boosters Waited for Boots Riley's next movie for what feels like ages and it delivered on the same fever dream energy I expected it to. Part of me feels Sorry To Bother You had stronger characters & shock value but I still admire the gall to make a movie with set design & colors THIS bonkers

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  • Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monsterBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    My dream movie to see with a bunch of people who haven’t seen it before is: Sorry to Bother You

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  • Doctor M. Popular @docpopMastodon · Feb 17, 2025

    "Sorry To Bother You" is playing at the Alamo Drafthouse in SF this weds. An amazing film and I'm excited to see it again in a theater. https://drafthouse.com/sf/event/weird-wednesday-sorry-to-bother-you #BootsRiley #SanFrancisco #SorryToBotherYou

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  • Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2024

    2018: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU Despite being written by an Xer nearly a decade earlier, possibly the greatest film about Millennial malaise. “If you get shown a problem, but have no idea how to control it, then you just decide to get used to the problem.”

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  • Andy Rose @andyrose12.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    top movie of all time. also see Sorry To Bother You by Boots Riley

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  • Meer @meerkatsrmammals.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) Sorry to Bother You (2018) Violent Saturday (1955) Ember Days (by Rifftrax) (2013)

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  • Jim Furbranes @unlox.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    once again thinking about how much I enjoyed the movie Sorry To Bother You despite the whole deal of almost every person involved in it

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  • Alexis Sara @alexissara.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    15 Movies To Know Me DEBS Birds of Prey Grumpy Cat Christmas But I'm A Cheerleader Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman Psycho Gorman Kase-san Glass Onion Adolescence of Utena One Piece Film Red Everything Everywhere All At Once Sorry To Bother You Digimon the movie Yugioh DSOD Sherk 2

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  • thiiird person @thiiirdperson.comBluesky · Dec 13, 2023

    Evergreen reminder that Sorry To Bother You is basically a Christmas movie (has a big company party that gets really uncomfortable for Black people who need to perform extra emotional labor)

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  • Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2023

    #scriptsky Movie alert: Brits, the absolutely remarkable Sorry To Bother You is just about to start on BBC3...

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  • Food4Dogs @food4dogs.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2023

    HARD-HITTING MOVIE You Shouldn't Miss: Sorry To Bother You by Boots Riley, 2018. A really smart movie - a rarity these days. We're now gonna watch his latest on Amazon Prime.

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  • Luca🎞️ @imjustluca.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2026

    Sorry to Bother You, great film. Go into it cold, don't look it up, just watch.

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  • You Can't Stop Progress @petrochemicsoul.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    Man. Sorry to Bother You is a film that is not fucking around. I had heard this was the case but like. Damn.

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  • Thracia Whitethorn can't stand those people over there.🔞ΘΔ @whitethorn.silly.gayBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    I'm gonna say this in a way that's easy for bsky to process: Conformity is a virus that infects minority groups. for more information, see the film Sorry to Bother You (2018)

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  • M @maybem.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2026

    While I’m on the topic, Boots Riley’s politics are idiotic and I am not going to pretend Sorry to Bother You was a good movie. Men like him love to be tokens

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  • jazz @ixoraa.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    #nw Sorry to Bother You - i love this movie so much and honestly they just got my ass within minutes when Cash puts $0.40 of gas in his car lmfao realest shit ever

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  • Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.socialBluesky · May 27, 2026

    Yeah. He has a tendency, I think, to throw a lot of Wild Ideas at the screen, but because he's just not that interested in his characters, the people in SORRY TO BOTHER YOU feel weirdly passive for a film about -- among other things -- launching a worldwide worker's revolution

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  • Andy Tulin (Subscribe to The Post Presence version) @andytulin.netBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is not for everyone. It was definitely for me, though. More Sorry to Bother You than Dude, Where’s My Car, but shares a lot of DNA with both, which is as high a compliment as I’ve got for a film in this particular vein

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    Day 18 - #BlackhistoryMonth #NowWatching I’m a Virgo on @primevideo.bsky.social . I really enjoyed Riley’s film Sorry to Bother You and I can’t wait to see what he brings on this show. #Filmsky #TVSky 📺

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  • Big Papa Nito @bigpapanito.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    Sorry to Bother You (18) is tonights film. I knew nothing about it when I first saw it. It absolutely blew me away. Highly recommended.

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  • MrDissonance @mrdissonance.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Sorry to Bother You My favorite film of 2018. #Filmsky 📽️

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  • Carlo 🇵🇷 • The Movie Loot @thiefcgt.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    Random recommendation of the day: On hindsight, maybe this one deserves the extra half-star. Either way, Sorry to Bother You (2018) is a unique and surreal film that pokes at your brain. Impressive for a debut film. #FilmSky My ★★★½ review of Sorry to Bother You on Letterboxd boxd.it/13aJVr

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  • I’ve Scene That! @scenethatreviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    https://scenethatreviews.com/sorry-to-bother-you-2018/ Don’t miss my latest review! From the Letterboxd Top 100 Black-Directed… Sorry to Bother You (2018) #Filmsky #Review #Letterboxd #Movies

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  • Wade in Tarnation @watn-tarnation.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    I disliked Sorry to Bother You not because the movie is bad but because I don't like Boots Riley's politics. movie should have been pro capitalism. stupid libs ruining everything

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  • 🐺Toasty🐺 @toastythewulf.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Like no, I don't care how absurd politics gets, I'm not claiming the misanthropic eugenics movie. Go watch Sorry to Bother You and get better taste

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  • 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    "you should see I Love Boosters" "what's that" "new Boots Riley film" "who's that" "frontman for The Coup, also made Sorry To Bother You" "what's that"

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  • ✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.appBluesky · Jan 28, 2026

    I fw Boots Riley so much…and yet, I think Sorry to Bother You is a very bad movie, like, in every aspect *except* politics.

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  • GayFesh🖖 @gayfesh.comBluesky · Jul 1, 2025

    Sorry To Bother You is still undefeated as a film.

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